DAY 2
Tuesday 10th

8am after saying hello, mucking out and taking Kyle to water we went for a Mosey on the grass. A lovely time to chill out with your horse and relax before the day starts. A time to catch up on yesterday's activities and enjoy the morning sun. Some practiced throwing and coiling theri 45 line, somehting I finally got to doing by the end of the week.
9am was back in the classroom, the classroom has a back room with comfy seats and hot and cold drinks with a few items to view and buy if wanted to. I bought a Horsenality Rugby Shirt and Polo Shirt and finally after pondering a while I bought a Jacket (I know.... another jacket). A range of topics were covered talking about innate characteristics, learned behaviours, environment and spirit all linked to Horsenality.
5 area's of confidence remembered buy the phase "L The L"

1) Leader
2) Themselves
3) Herd
4) Environment
5) Learner

At 11am we headed to the barn where a round pen has been set up with chairs in a semi arc; behind the round pen are some stalls. We watch a demo with Carmen playing with Sharon 's horse "Cheeky" RB and Donna's horse "Sol" LB. I did notice that at one point Carmen was in zone 5 as the horse walked away, to me that could have put you in a position to be kicked, when I posed the question "What if the horse spooked and kicked out, what if you got hurt" all I got in reply was "That is a lot of "What if's".. my question went unanswered. I still don't think it was very safe.
Next we went outside and played games with each other. We had to pair up and one person was the human and the other was the horse. The human picked a piece of paper from Michael's tub which had three tasks on it. You had to get your horse to perform the task without talking. This was quite funny and you really had to think to get the message across to your human-horse. We then had a demo with Carmen and a grey horse, see below. (sorry can't remember its name) followed by Simulations - Matching energy with a RB horse.

A fun game we played was again pairing up, we were encouraged to always find a different partner, I guess this was also to help us to mix and get to know each other. One as the horse and the other as the human once again, the human had to guide the horse using his / her hands and no voice. This was done in three stages

1)  Push horse forward then pull back randomly
2)  Match horses stride and play friendly if stopped
3)  Get out of sync with your horse

It was discovered that #1 got you frustrated as did #3, not surprisingly it was #2 that got a better response and made you feel more willing. After that we went and brought our horses to the play area remembering to mosey on down and not all rush at once, taking time and mirroring your horse. Time to play tag, "Don't make me pick up the stick" does you horse move it's hinny before you tag him / her? Sometimes yes sometimes no.

We had plenty of play time with our horses. The play area, what is it like? There is a huge round pen with entrances, two entrances are of thick plaited rope that hooks on and off, then there are two other entrances but you have to jump a small log to get in and the 5th is a small log raised up on stumps. When I say small they are about 1.5-2ft high. Inside the round pen there is another 4 50 meter round pens so you can imagine the size of the honeycomb. To the right as you walk around there is the car wash, followed by the bridge, barrels and the big green Parelli Ball.

THE HONEYCOMB	TTHE CAR WASH

To the left there are some huge tree trunks and I mean huge, poor Kyle was quiet relieved to see he did not have to jump those but we did play games around them. Further round there are poles to weave in and out or what ever you imagination decides on, there are pedestals and more tree trunks and barrels. So much to play with. Your imagination can run wild and the change in Kyle was fantastic. This little pony that seems to prefer his slippers and pipe suddenly came alive, on his toes and loving ever minute of it. One task I have been trying hard with is to have Kyle come to me over a jump on a loose line. He never did but yet the first time I asked him at the honeycomb he did it first time. I was so stunned I couldn't move. I felt like I was gonna burst with happiness at something others may find trivial.
The day finally ended at around 7.15pm, exhausted and tired but filled with so much inspiration from the faculty.